May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
With all the preening, posing and stretching, it's hard to know if The Specialist is an action movie or an exercise video.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The Specialist is one of those films that forces the characters through torturous mazes of dialogue and action, to explain a plot that is so unlikely it's not worth the effort.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
This movie is a stinker in every way, from the one-dimensional acting to the idiot dialogue to the surprisingly monotonous storyline.